The Lavin era is till new to us. Some posters still think that having a good player at a certain position negates our chances of recruiting another good player for the same position. Just look at the top schools, who regularly have a few good players, technically, at the same positions. The coaches at these schools and the players tend to work it out. Otherwise, schools like UK, Duke, KU, etc. would have highs and lows over a period of time.
CR has mentioned, probably a million times, how Coach Lavin and other UCLA coaches had (have) routinely brought in fresh talent each year and made it work.
I am with Boo, I just want to enjoy the coming year. I will let Coach worry about recruiting and playing the best talent in the upcoming years.
One thing to note on the players Steve Lavin signs. He has historically almost NEVER pursued a "one position" player. Virtually every player he's signed has had the ability to play multiple positions. And, more importantly, Steve has PLAYED them at multiple positions. So concern about not landing a player at the same position in two consectutive recruiting classes due to lack of PT at a position is pretty much moot. Best Examples I can think of off hand - Steves first recruting class had top 100 center Travis Reed (28.8 pts, 14.7 rebs 8.1 assists out of AB Miller High in Fontana, CA), even tho UCLA had forer top 20 rising Junior Center Jelani McCoy. in the next class he landed the #1 Euro player from the Nike Hoop Summit team, Center Jerome Moiso. AND the #1 ranked Center in high school, Dan Gadzuric. In that same class, he brought in top 5 SF Jaron Rush, AND SF Matt Barnes (a top 50 player). And the NEXT class he brought in top 10 SF Jason Kapono.
Of all those players, only Gadzuric played only 1 position for the Bruins (Dan COULD have played PF, but was never needed. As an 18-21 year old, Gadz was the fastest player on the UCLA squad - a soccor and track star in high school). Reed would play C and PF. Moiso C and PF. Rush SF & PF. Barnes SF, PF & C. Kapono played SF, PF, SG AND even a couple games at PG.
If you can play, Steve Lavin will find a way to get you on the floor. Heck, he played one of his players, Toby Bailey, significant minutes at all FIVE positions in his career. When he left UCLA, the 6'6 Toby was the Bruins #4 all time scorer (behind only Don MacLean, Lew Alcindor & Reggie Miller), #16 all time rebounder, #7 all time Assists, #8 All Time steals. and #13 all time Blocked shots. The rebounding and blocks may not seem that impressive, till you realize UCLA has sent 27 centers and 19 PFs to the NBA...